Weekly Check-In w/o 9.15

inthewoods23 · September 15

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days:

FTM/STM/STM+:

Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out:

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of:

Upcoming appointments:

How are you feeling?:

Rants/Raves:

Questions:

GTKY: You've hired some house cleaning services woohoo! What room are you most embarrassed to have them clean? 😬

ashsowers2020 · September 15

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 5/14 5w4d

FTM/STM/STM+: 4th baby ❤️

Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: finding out

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: very tiny 🥰

Upcoming appointments: October 7th— first prenatal appt + dating scan

How are you feeling?: Soooooo tired, nauseous off and on, still a bit nervous/anxious but as the days go by I’m more confident this baby is here to stay ❤️

Rants/Raves: none I can think of ATM. Just super excited and can’t wait for time to speed up so I can meet babe

Questions: n/a

GTKY: You've hired some house cleaning services woohoo! What room are you most embarrassed to have them clean? 😬 haha none! They can have at it. It’s less that this exhausted mama has to clean 😂

travellingjess · September 15

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: may 6,2026 - 6w5d

FTM/STM/STM+: STM

Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Finding out at 20w ultrasound

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Baby is the size of a chocolate chip!

Upcoming appointments: GP today and midwife first appt next week (by phone).

How are you feeling?: Ugh. So exhausted. Nausea has mostly passed but textures make me gag/spit out food and stop eating. I have quite regular cramping but expected with second pregnancies I think. I also think I have a yeast infection. Joy.

Rants/Raves: MH is so useless!

Questions: None from me.

GTKY: You've hired some house cleaning services woohoo! What room are you most embarrassed to have them clean? 😬 Tie between bathroom and kitchen!

inthewoods23 · September 15

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: May 11, 6 weeks today!

FTM/STM/STM+: STM

Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: finding out! Probably doing the blood test again around week 12

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: we are a little bit bigger than the "m" on an M&M

Upcoming appointments: my OB now does confirmation of pregnancy ultrasounds so we get to see the little bean on the 26th!

How are you feeling?: today has been rough! I felt so sick earlier I nearly puked. Granted I hadn't eaten yet flin the day so that probably didn't help. Ever since I've felt so blah.

Rants/Raves: I started looking for a house recently and we had a showing set up for Wednesday but they already have multiple offers for the house so that's a no go. Bummer.

Questions: how long are you all waiting to tell family you're expecting? Or did you already? And how did/will you do it? I kind of want to do the Big Brother shirt kind of thing. I also don't know how to tell DS. He's only 3.

GTKY: You've hired some house cleaning services woohoo! What room are you most embarrassed to have them clean? 😬 For sure the bathroom because I hate cleaning it so it's probably really gross in some corners 😬

travellingjess · September 16

Oh good questions! My DS is 2.5 (exactly today) and I've sort of been saying "please don't jump on mummy, you'll hurt baby" and that there's a baby in mummy's tummy. He's a bit confused and thinks there is a baby in his tummy but did mentionit last night when he wouldn't fall asleep til 10:15pm so he listens sometimes. I haven't told my family but my mom lives upstairs and I'm sure she knows already, but I have a t-shirt I got for $5 on fb that I plan to put him in for Canadian thanksgiving (October) if I'm not showing by then. I've told a few people at work cause they are my close circle and wonder why I have so many appointments all of a sudden. I'll tell the rest of my team when I'm further along. We are almost all remote so it's easier to hide.

ellie_asaurus · September 16

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 7 weeks today! Tentative due date is 5/5

FTM/STM/STM+: FTM

Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Not finding out!! Is that team green?

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: A coffee bean!

Upcoming appointments: First appt is 10/6

How are you feeling?: I've had almost no symptoms besides breast soreness until today, the nausea is starting...

Rants/Raves:

Questions: How early are people telling their employers?

I already told my parents and some close friends but that's it.

GTKY: You've hired some house cleaning services woohoo! What room are you most embarrassed to have them clean? Hmmmm probably closets that don't get a lot of attention!

inthewoods23 · September 17

@ellie_asaurus I told my boss when I was about 13 weeks with my first. I had many years of infertility and 1 miscarriage so we wanted to make sure everything was really good with our little guy before we even told our families. I was right about 11 weeks at Christmas when we gifted everyone the surprise of our pregnancy so I waited for the New Year to mention it to my boss.

When you tell your employer is really up to you but it may also depend on the job you do/your responsibilities (if anything is hazardous or you do a lot of heavy lifting for example) and you need some level of accommodation now that you're pregnant. Some end up telling them sooner because they are dealing with a lot of severe morning sickness and want to explain some of their absences.

Not that this applies, but you wouldn't want to say anything if you're job hunting or maybe you're in the running for a promotion. Pregnancy discrimination is illegal but it definitely happens anyway.

Knottie51252574 · September 24

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lindsay_ds9 · September 24

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: Due date May 20th, according to Flo I
am 6 weeks 1 day.

FTM/STM/STM+: FTM

Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: We are going to find out but we have
no preference.

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Baby is the size of a
lentil! I wanted to make lentil soup this week as a cute little
milestone thing, bought all of the stuff and then immediately felt
completely repulsed at the thought of making or eating it. 😭

Upcoming appointments: I am not being seen until October 27 which
feels SO far away, it's the day before I turn 11 weeks. Trying to be
patient!

How are you feeling?: Constantly changing. Sometimes I am over the
moon happy, sometimes (like today) I have high anxiety that I can't
necessarily pinpoint to anything and things generally feel
overwhelming. I think it helps to ultimately remember that the ups and
downs are normal.

Rants/Raves: Boobs hurt a lot, way worse than PMS.Like, they are
sensitive to touch almost? It's a little painful to dry off after
showering. I am also learning so fast that looking up anything on
Google feels like self punishment because there are so many countering
opinions and ideas and I am just trying to keep a good head on my
shoulders and stick to what is proven and what doctors say versus
TikTok rabbitholes go off on.

Questions: How is everyone else dealing with the fears of the unknown?
Maybe you already have had a baby before, I am just feeling so many
worries about literally everything - pregnancy, birth, childcare, just
all of it.

GTKY: You've hired some house cleaning services woohoo! What room are
you most embarrassed to have them clean: I am a clean freak but maybe
our spare bedroom that has been storage but will need to be baby's
room. I just need to make a plan on organization and moving things
around!

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